Nungali Posted May 7, 2018 Its been about 10 years since we used our riverside, sub tropical rain forest festival site . Good to see it used again . Any one in Oz ? or 'come on down ' http://www.cognitiveroots.com.au/ Still got a bit of work to do .... ( and tractor still unrepaired ! ) toilets and showers being revamped and upgraded , I put myself in for finishing off the outsides in bamboo work..... which I have to go and do more of , right now . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted June 8, 2018 Well, as usual, its been an adventure. I think, by now the 'young' guy organising the event now agrees with me ; " You need 6 months at least, a good large crew and be prepared for anything to happen . " HA! Aside from all the 'usual' insanities that happen he had the lease illegally withdrawn (it got reinstated but not without serious consequences to the person that tried to do that ) the tractor , broke down - we got use of another. A branch landed on his car and smashed the back rear door and window , now it lets exhaust smoke and rain in , the council claimed part of the site was was a commonwealth road ( they never said that for the 5 festivals I helped organise there ! ) and he had to get approval of the Australian government to use 'our' land .... etc etc . I got bursitis and sciatica from bamboo cutting and tying ( eventually help turned up ) , had to leave and go to family funeral ... and other stuff ... etc etc . People started turning up ... then the rain . yesterday the whole area was totally fogged out in daytime, very cold and rain ... massive piles of firewood gathered ... that is getting wet . .... But we got to the 'snowball' point where even if we pulled out the moment was going to make it happen anyway , so we are underway ! heaps of people / helpers have turned up, camps set up in the orchards ( and citrus is nearly ripe .bye-bye fruit ! ) . I can hear duff duff duff , from my place now, sound checks .... go down there soon BUT TOMORROW .... BLAST OFF ( its so great to see our riverside festival site finally being used again , with the flags, streamers, camps, travellers etc being set up , it been dormant for years . ) Here is the site That white square in lower centre is the stage , cleared area on left is camping, light green vegetation along river is bamboo groves. More on facebook apparently , but I have nothing to do with facebook 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
